AFRICAN / BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2016 REMEMBERING DR. CHEIKH ANTA DIOP / A GREAT AFRICAN THINKER By Sainey Faye Born: December 29, 1923 …….Died : February 7, 1986…….On this date he passed away and joined the ancestors.He was one of Africa’s greatest thinkers of the twentieth century.Born in Diourbel, Senegal; Cheikh Anta Diop was a scientist, mathematician, and historian/anthropologist.He was a well known African historian, who authored many books on African and world history, and dispelled the myth of Egypt being non-African.Probably, he more than any other historian on Egypt; defended and provided evidences of Egyptian civilizations Africaness.He authored…
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Bishop Elison of the Gambia PRESS RELEASE: OUR VIEW ON THE DECLARATION OF THE GAMBIA AS AN ISLAMIC STATE The Knights of Saints Peter and Paul is a society open to all Catholic men. It has a current membership of fifty three. It was formed in 1989 under the Patronage and spiritual guidance of the Catholic Bishop of Banjul, and affiliated to the International Alliance of Catholic Knights. Members, who come from different backgrounds, commit themselves to propagate the Catholic faith by living exemplary lives, according to the teachings of mother Church. The Order also promotes a spirit…
‘Let’s Go Take Back Our Country’ What happened when 11 exiles armed themselves for a violent night in the Gambia In the dark hours of the morning on December 30, 2014, eight men gathered in a graveyard a mile down the road from the official residence of Yahya Jammeh, the president of the Gambia. The State House overlooks the Atlantic Ocean from the capital city of Banjul, on an island at the mouth of the Gambia River. It was built in the 1820s and served as the governor’s mansion through the end of British colonialism, in 1965. Trees and high…
New York, February 5, 2016-The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the shooting in Guinea today of El-Hadj Mohamed Diallo, a reporter for the news websites Guinée7 and Afrik, and calls on authorities to ensure justice is served. Diallo died on the way to the hospital after being shot during clashes outside a meeting of Guinea’s main opposition party, the Union of Democratic Forces, in the capital, Conakry, according to reports . The party has been divided after its vice-president, Oury Bah, was expelled from its leadership. When Bah was denied entry to the party’s headquarters today, his supporters and…
Former international Sang Ndong has been named as the coach of The Gambia again, his last stint ended in 2003. He has stepped down as coach of local side Hawks to sign a two-year deal with the Scorpions. Ndong’s first competitive games will be home and away 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Mauritania in March. “Our objective now is to rebuild. We’re not saying there’s nothing on the ground – there is,” he said. “But we want to take it from where it is, to another level and to change, not the brand the national team is using,…
Total Certainty Feathered onlookers perched On symbolic trees Quip a prose Of thundering protest They ask If all is well ask If a lie can be true They ask why Some walk a tightrope In total certainty Ask why In the peace They find a knife To stab the good In total certainty – Baba
We have all heard the calls for electoral reforms. Some have prayed for electoral reforms, some asked for international intervention to force electoral reforms, some have threatened opposition boycott and a go to the street approach. Whatever method one can think about, it has already been tried. So far as of yet all have failed miserably. At this stage it is fair to conclude that Gambian leaders especially the opposition leaders along with their gun-hoo believers that are stuck in the path of election are either delusional or pathological hopefuls. They have managed to convince themselves to believe that…
Gainako received news with sadness that one of Africa’s strongest advocates for Human Rights, Democracy and Justice is no longer working at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights. While we are not privy to the circumstances of Mr. Smith’s departure from the RFK Center, we are saddened that such a strong advocate and resource who has been a champion and voice for the voiceless in the remotest part of Africa would no longer be at the people’s center to continue his advocacy for human rights, justice and Democracy in Africa. Jeffrey Smith was not only an ordinary…
DEMOCRATIC UNION OF GAMBIAN ACTIVIST (DUGA) is calling a press conference to be held on Friday, February 5th 2016 at 5.30 pm. This press conference will be a follow up to DUGA’s December 30th “call to action”, and to explain our position and the new phase of DUGA operations; as well as answer questions from the press. We invite all Gambian diaspora radios to attend or be represented. Conference call-in information will be forwarded separately to all media houses via email. Signed, DUGA DC
On Thursday, February 4, Satya Nadella will celebrate his second anniversary as the CEO of Microsoft. It’s been an eventful couple of years. Microsoft has grown its crucial cloud business, released Windows 10 to a much better reception than its loathed predecessor, launched a bunch of great apps for iPhone and Android, and generally made people like it a lot more. But the real victory of Satya Nadella — the truly monumental shift — has been within the company. Under Nadella, Microsoft is pointed in one direction for first time in modern memory. “There is something only a CEO uniquely…